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USE

The authors keyword controls what names appear in the AUTHOR POD sections at the bottom of Perl modules. You can specify multiple authors by separating them with commas. For each author, you may include an optional email address by using a pair instead of a single name:

    authors `Phil Crow` => `crow.phil@gmail.com`, `Someone Else`;

No email address will be shown unless you use a pair for the author.

If you omit this keyword, you get the same default you would get from h2xs. That is, you get the name from the gcos field in /etc/passwd, or its moral equivalent for your system and a manufactured email address which is rarely correct.

If you omit the copyright_holder keyword, the first person listed in authors will be the default copyright_holder.

If you use kick start syntax like this:

    bigtop -n AppName 'tbl1(col1,col2)->tbl2(cola)'

no authors statement will be included, unless you have a file called .bigtopdef in your home directory. If you have that file, it must be a valid bigtop file in it, which may include an authors statement.

THE EXAMPLE

In the example, the above author statement is used. When you build the example with:

    bigtop -c example.bigtop all

Change to the Kids directory and look for Phil Crow in these files:

 README
 docs/kids.bigtop
 lib/GENKids.pm
 lib/Kids.pm
 lib/Kids/Child.pm
 lib/Kids/GENModel.pm
 lib/Kids/Model.pm

'Someone Else' appears in all of those except README, where Phil is listed solely because he is the default copyright holder.